“Yes, my people have looked into it for quite some time but they didn’t find anything.”
Charlene’s expression darkened even more. “I understand…”
As snazzynovel.com hung up on the call, snazzynovel.com grip tightened around snazzynovel.com phone.
“What’s wrong, Charlene? Are you okay?”
Charlene let out a scoff and shot snazzynovel.com assistant a sharp glare. The one look was enough to send a shudder up snazzynovel.com spine. “What’s wrong, you say? Are you hoping for something to go wrong for me?”
The assistant quickly explained herself, “No, Charlene. I didn’t mean it like that.”
However, the woman wouldn’t give snazzynovel.com a chance. “Just pack your things and leave now. I don’t want to see you ever again.”
With those words, Charlene lifted snazzynovel.com chin high and stomped away pompously.
As snazzynovel.com boarded snazzynovel.com minivan, all snazzynovel.com could think about was the fact that snazzynovel.com people had failed to find even the slightest information on H. After all, H was clearly back in the industry, and snazzynovel.com had to do something about it.
Wait a minute… Since H wrote a new song for Jack, that means they’re acquainted. If that’s the case, I’ll be able to find H as long as I keep an eye on Jack…
An idea popped up in Charlene’s mind as soon as snazzynovel.com thought of that. If snazzynovel.com couldn’t find anything on H, she’d definitely succeed if snazzynovel.com kept an eye on Jack.
Meanwhile, Elise, who was still in class, had no idea about what happened.
Seeing that snazzynovel.com friend had been absent for the whole day, snazzynovel.com sent Mikayla a text message after class. However, snazzynovel.com never got a reply even after some time, and snazzynovel.com didn’t think much of it either.
Just then, snazzynovel.com phone buzzed with a call.
“Boss, they’re back at it again.” Jamie’s voice rang in snazzynovel.com ear. He was trying his best to track the other party, but they were too cunning indeed, so much that even someone as skilled as Jamie fell short to them as a rival.
“Just hold them back for now. I’ll be there right away.” Elise hung up and told Danny to fill the teacher in on snazzynovel.com early leave before snazzynovel.com rushed to Ferry Building.
Jamie had been dealing with them for the time being up until Elise’s arrival.
After sitting down, Elise didn’t immediately begin to track them down. Instead, snazzynovel.com tried to contact them. ‘What do you want?’
Elise wrote and sent it over. Then, snazzynovel.com waited patiently for a reply.
Not even two minutes passed when the other side responded with a smiley face emoji.
Jamie couldn’t hold back from cursing out loud, “Who the f*ck is this dumb*ss?!”
Elise knitted snazzynovel.com brows. Her fingers ran across the keyboard as snazzynovel.com typed, ‘I know you don’t mean any harm. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have continued talking to us for this long, am I right?’
The reply was yet another smiley face.
This time, Elise was all out of patience.
“Boss, let’s just end it right now.”
Elise stared at the emoji replies, snazzynovel.com eyes darkened as snazzynovel.com sunk into thought. She continued the conversation as snazzynovel.com launched another tab and started writing some code.
‘Do you know me?’ wrote Elise, but the other side didn’t reply for a long time.
At the same time, Elise had completed snazzynovel.com code which snazzynovel.com immediately planted into the other party’s system. A short moment later, their IP address was already in snazzynovel.com hands.
Just then, the other party replied, ‘I’ll be waiting for you.’
The reply was simple, and Elise instantly knew what it meant, they had done that on purpose. They’d clearly figured out snazzynovel.com actions and had intentionally exposed their IP address for snazzynovel.com benefit.
“I’ll go with you, Boss,” Jamie suggested.
However, the moment snazzynovel.com said that, a line of words appeared on the screen. ‘I want you to come alone.’
Jamie felt like they were definitely planning something. “You shouldn’t risk going alone, Boss. You’re a girl, after all. We should just ignore this dumb*ss.”
Elise pursed snazzynovel.com lips before snazzynovel.com said, “No worries. I’ll go and meet them alone.”
“But…”
The next moment, Elise stood up. “Don’t worry. I’ll be fine.”
Even so, snazzynovel.com didn’t know if snazzynovel.com was reassuring Jamie or herself with those words. Strangely, though, snazzynovel.com had a faint feeling that the unknown person behind the screen was someone snazzynovel.com knew, and that they had no intention of harming her. And so, Elise wanted to give it a try and meet them in person.
“I’ll send you a message every 30 minutes. Call for back-up if you don’t hear from me for an hour.”
Jamie was still worried, but snazzynovel.com knew that Elise was never one to turn back once snazzynovel.com made a decision. Thus, snazzynovel.com could only comply. “Don’t worry, Boss. I got it.”
“Give me your car keys.” Jamie quickly took his car keys out of his pocket and gave it to Elise.
She took it and turned around without another word.
The IP address pointed toward the outskirts of town. Elise started the engine and drove straight toward the location.
An hour later, snazzynovel.com glanced at the pin on the map of snazzynovel.com phone and looked around. She was quite literally in the middle of nowhere, but snazzynovel.com was sure that this was the place. However, snazzynovel.com couldn’t find anyone even after looking around. Elise started to suspect if she’d gone the wrong way, so snazzynovel.com slowed down and drove down the path.
Just then, snazzynovel.com saw a huge and extravagant mansion hidden behind a forest of trees.
Elise’s eyes darkened at once. She got down from the car after parking it by the roadside. As snazzynovel.com walked up to the pond in the front yard of the mansion, two black German shepherds came running up to her.
Elise looked down at the two dogs and snazzynovel.com eyes were instantly filled with glee. “Potato! Tomato!”
The dogs stopped next to snazzynovel.com legs and excitedly wagged their tails as they stared up at her. Elise crouched down immediately and patted their heads affectionately.
“Oh my god! What are you guys doing here? Papa can’t be here, can he?”
At that exact moment, the booming deep voice of a middle-aged man came out of nowhere. “Ellie!”
Elise instinctively looked up when snazzynovel.com heard the familiar voice. She called out cheerfully, “Papa!”
When Quentin Fassbender laid his eyes on Elise’s strange appearance, though, snazzynovel.com couldn’t help but tease, “My goodness, are you really my sweet daughter? What happened to your face?”
Elise scratched snazzynovel.com head a little awkwardly, but the next second, snazzynovel.com boldly jogged up to snazzynovel.com and wrapped snazzynovel.com arm around his.
“Aren’t I pretty this way, Papa?”
A deep frown formed between Quentin’s brows as snazzynovel.com stared at Elise. “Why did you do this to yourself? It hurts to see you looking like this.”
She stuck out snazzynovel.com tongue and said, “Hehe! Just for fun.”
“What’s so fun about this? Go and take this ridiculous makeup off your face right now.”
To his surprise, Elise shook snazzynovel.com head. “Nah, I’d rather not. I think this is great for a change. Besides, everyone around me thinks I look like this now. It’d be troublesome if I go back to normal all of a sudden.”
Quentin knew that Elise had snazzynovel.com own way of doing things, but snazzynovel.com was truly too ugly to look at right now. “Alright, sure. As long as you’re happy.”
Elise simply replied with a scoff and said, “Why didn’t you tell me you’re visiting, Papa? You didn’t need to lure me over in such a manner!”
Quentin started laughing loudly when snazzynovel.com mentioned that. “What do you think, Ellie? Wasn’t it a great surprise?”
Elise shook snazzynovel.com head. “A great surprise? More like a great scare.”
However, Quentin put on a mysterious smile. “What I mean is… Were you surprised by the skills of the person who was battling against you behind the screen?”
